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Re: Piercing anonymitiy and censorship
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 93 10:45:32 PST
> From: [email protected] (E. Dean Tribble)
>
> I would like to separate the issues of hollering anything at 4am in
> residential areas from things like libel and slander. Disturbing
> people with your volume independent of its content is like blasting
> white noise at damaging volume levels. The remedies for it have
> nothing to do with speech, they have to do with disturbing the peace;
> your sound is crossing onto my property at intolerable levels.
>
> And again, I repeat..... with anonymous remailers, you no longer have a
> way to enforce said grounds of disturbing the peace ---- unless you do
> things like approach the finnish authorities and ask that penet be
> disconnected from the network for disturbing the peace of various Usenet
> groups.....
>
> - Ted
Don't most news readers have "kill files" (sometimes known as "bozo
filters")? I definately prefer decentralized solutions. Anyone mandating
what I can and cannot read is slime (synonomous with censor), imo.
I want to make that choice myself, thank you very nice.
Fen